Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-16

Your work is of charitable kline
aud uo:e but good men and womeI
can tightly perfo m it
Your number here assembled
speaks well the character Of your worl
and the manner Of it's acceptance
am NJ the people. We can not AFFORD
to Ii ok with contempt upon you ol
daie work that you an doing.
We praise you.
We esteem you sad thrice welcome
you place in our midst.
Fiatsrnally Yours.
H. n. BROWN.
Pastor of the NJ. e. Church.
After an app; opri to recep ton OF
the welc ,lne by the Lodge Rev A.W.
Nc Kinney, preached the following
EASTER SERMON.
Text. Corinthsaus Chapter l5-V 10.
IF in this life only we havs hope in Christ
/, We are in.sll men most miserable
1t is custom on occasions like this to
sn!ogizs the Order giving.its history set
ting forth Its principles, accomplishments
&c Such course 10 day wonld be Moth
ing new.
1 shall therefore depart from the GUS
tom and speak OF the occasion which
brings US together, viz: Eas ,er Easter, in its
modern ssnse i. another fern for resurrect-
ion.
1t has ever been the disposition Of MAE
kind to mark great events. Thus the pat
riarchs OF the Old Testament NAKED the
places where good vie ted them. Jacob
when sleeping under the open sky
dreamed that. ladder reached from
earth to heaven. And whom be swoks he
sat up a stone saying Surely God ID in this
place and know il not" Abraham, when
about to offer up his son Isaac was dsliv-
ere,l by tue inierposition of God. And be
called that place Jehovah Jireh-ths Lord
will provide. After all it is the presence Of
God that makes one place mors sacred than
another. l care nothing about your frss-
coed walls, windows and costly pews. Show
me whore God manifest himself to his peo-
pls whether that be palace or prison the
me il holy ground.
But there are some things which God has
not snff red man to mark. Moses the great
Major General, Lawgiver, prophet. priest
aud king OF Israel served his day and gem
Grafton, but when he must die God hid his
grave from the Israelitss. Why ? Doubt
less to keep them firm deifying and wor>
shipping the creature moro than the cre-
Ator. Jrist this thing men are likely tods
The human soul Graves a visible object Of
worship. But God destroys these that he
NAV lead us out unto the unknown--up
into himself.
But as for this occasion--ths resurrsct-
ion, the eternal deems it of snch vast im
ly bat has marked it himself.
| will read you tho his ory tn -reOf and
show you Gods mark on the subject OF
Resurrection. Tue Isralitss were con
ma pded to leave Egypt on the fourteenth
d.y Of the month, Abb. They were COM
ma nded to preprepars feast, and partsks
Of it b fore departing. This feast was 10
be observed annually as long as their NJ.
ton lived, that it might be haadsd down to
the remotest generation.
Now, it Was or the same eecAsion
that Christ on that memorable night he
fore his death. partook of the Passover and
instituted the Lords Supper. Afterwards.
He Was betrayed by His foes, drawn before
the rulers, went through . mock trial,
condemned. crucided, dead, and buried
Now. the Scriptures explicitly state, that
on the third morning. He arose from
the grave. Thus. God has indslibly vArk
ed the Resurrection ss historical ia.
Aud how appropriate is the time! How
beautiful. 1t seems to me that God has
sxerted His amnipots e to fl it at
time whsE al nature should vie with the
scriptures in teaching man the great les
son OF immortality. At this time when
the voice Of turtle, whippoorwill and
mocking bird join to the rcturning spring
At this time, when our earth swings back
under the sun's director ray. At this time,
when showers from above come DIVA and
water ths earth. and when the earth hsavss
from below aud seeds up her strength
At this time. when men rush out OF their